Improvement in suspenders



B. J. GREELY.

SUSPENDERS.

Patente. Feb. 29; 1876.

MPETERS, PHOTO LITHOGR WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BENJAMIN J. GREELY, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUSPENDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 174,074; dated February 29, 1876; application iiled July 31, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN J. GREELY, of Boston, in the.county of Sufl'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented Improved Suspenders, of which the following is a speci-' fication In the common form of suspenders the button-straps which connect the buttons on the structed and tried; but I prefer the form shown in Figure 1, where the straps a a are elastic, and that shown in Fig. 3, when non elastic web is used for all the straps but the forms shown in Figs. 2 and 3 answer Welland are easily put together. In all these figures b 11 indicate. the straps which connect with the side buttons. In Fig. 3 the several straps are connected together by the triangular metallic devices at and d, which lie at the back of the wearer but the back straps b c and b 0 play through these devices (1 d, instead of being sewed to them, as the straps a strap extends from the back portion to the side button, as that is common in shoulderbraces and suspenders combined but no suspender or combined suspender and brace was known to me prior to my invention, in which a single button-strap on each side was used in front, and the side button-strap on each side extended from the back portion of the main straps; and it is this peculiarity of construction which distinguishes my suspender from all other articles of this class before known, and from which all its advantages spring.

What I claim as my invention is The improved suspenders above described, 1

with but two button-straps in frontone connected to one of the two straps which pass over the shoulders, and the other conneotedto the other of such straps, and having the side button-straps arranged to pass from the side buttons, under the arms, to the back piece, all as above described and shown.

B. J. GREELY. Witnesses:

B. DAVIS,

J. E. MAYNADIER. 

